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Man threatened to have a gun at Jersey City storeJersey City NJ

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Communipaw Ave, Jersey City, NJ

At a Walgreens store near Communipaw Avenue in Jersey City, a man told an employee he had a gun. The employee said she was calling the police, and the man ran away heading west on Communipaw Avenue. The employee did not see a gun.

Audio|Source: Jersey City Police
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Transcript:
00:00
West 2, West 3, and any available units, West 4.
00:05
So I hit over the area of Trinity and Communipaw.
00:10
Last seen west on Communipaw.
00:13
He was a black male last seen wearing a black jacket, gray pants, facial mask.
00:19
Told Corey he had a gun.
00:20
Did not see a gun.
00:22
States he was going to call the police and then ran down to the port towards west side.
00:27
No other...
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Seriously,
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questions.
00:38
Thank you. For six.
00:46
Okay. Who can you ask that over the 464?
00:49
Four Centro?
00:52
Got a caller waiting on the outside, then why he came his stolen iPod for that location.
01:03
I see.
01:08
To put itself in the area.
01:13
Sue. Sue. Two.
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Four, pay with me here now.
01:19
Two. Two.
01:24
And do, uh, four, do we have a call back?
01:28
Who's calling this in?
01:29
Try and phone back now.
01:37
That's West 4.
01:38
Put-it-South West Side Commission.
01:41
I want to stop, message description.
01:49
The West 4, you say you got a call back for that?
01:51
Yeah, it's going to be one of the workers at Walgreens if someone can step inside it's here.
01:55
And what's for this party? Did he say, are you seeing anything?
02:01
Is he willing to speak or?
02:03
Yeah.
02:04
Okay, yes. The caller is a female.
02:07
She works at the Walgreens.
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She's inside the store.
02:10
Someone wants to step inside and speak to her.
02:12
She did not see a gun.
02:14
She just stated he said he had one.
02:16
And when she said she was calling the police, he took off running.
02:18
He took off running.
02:20
All right, so he said he had one, and when she said that she was on the call, he left already.

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Location mentioned:
Communipaw Ave, Jersey City, NJ
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